To day or not to day #134. Fear of endless stagnation of the economy in the United States and Europe is unjustified. We do not want to accept that recovery from financial crisis takes time and are trying to force demand.
There is no reason to expect that in coming decades increased productivity in western world suddenly would disappear.

Illustration for Loud and Quiet's feature by John Ford who takes us through a confrontation process with post-war Jazz. John rejects the idea of limiting his ears and finds himself in a vortex of maladjustment converted into a crude humour approach to Jazz as a genre, but also as a lifestyle related to a certain musical conservatism.

I drew this illustration for VPRO magazine. It's about the pharmaceutical industry, which, Professor in pharmaceutical biotechnology Huub Schellekens claims, only innovates products that are commercially lucrative.

First commission for MorgenBladet, a Norwegian weekly paper. The article focussed on how reading habits are changing; with such a disruptive lifestyle can we still decipher the intricate plots of literature? And does the way novels are written need to be changed to suit our future times. I for one hope not.

'Victims of the temptress' - Human mate poachers are individuals interested in having brief affairs with married people. Studies show that this behavior, although criticized, is socially acceptable for men. Women who seduce married men are judged very harsh and always blamed for a couple’s break up.